So, the Dragon Prince just introduced a bonafide lesbian couple as the queens of a country (yay!) but then fridged them in the very next chapter (booh!). I mean, I guess it is a dramatic way of setting up her daughter's arc, but thanks to these two episodes we can say that in the Dragon Prince world 100% of lesbians end up mauled by a dragon. Sheesh.

That said, I'm officially hooked - that flashback was meaty enough and so much stuff was let unsaid that I now need to know what really happened. If Viren didn't embellish his contributions I'll eat my hat. Heck, I'm almost willing to bet that he killed the queen himself to get away from Thunder, and all his actions since are born of resentment against the Dragon King and a misguided sense of guilt.

I just finished this! The second season sagged a bit but it really picked up in the third. I love how writerly it is, and how much time Lemony spends opining over words and idioms he likes. I also think it's one of the more theologically impressive bits of children's entertainment I've ever come across. "It doesn't matter if we made the right choice, what matters is what happens" is a stunning line and has stuck in my craw since the first season came out. I thought I was projecting onto the series until the serpent and apple parallel happened in the last episode, which was great.

I felt from the beginning that NPH was miscast, as he's just a bit too affable to seem sinister enough (which is how he got away with playing a lovable sexual predator for nine years). He got better as the show went on, though, and I really enjoyed him in "The Penultimate Peril."

Turn up Charlie is a weird show. It expects that by having everyone call Idris Elba a loser he will no longer be obviously Idris Elba. He is a down on his luck DJ who start to work for a rich childhood friend as a nanny. He still looks like Idris Elba.

Someone pointed out to me that the show puts Carmen as the main character, which is very antithetical to every Carmen Sandiego property up to this point. She's always been mysterious and afar. You're supposed to be left wondering.

That's why I don't think I'm all that interested in it. It kind of answers everything, and it's not nearly as compelling.

This is actually how I feel too; there's a mistique about her that I feel gets taken away. That said, I feel much like Joker, you can chalk this as just being one account from her side of the story.

And speaking of Joker, I really like how this scratches that itch that's been missing since Batman: The Animated Series. Even some of the fight scenes seem pulled straight out of that show (camera angles and some choreography), and the fantastic art direction (which sort of reminds me of Cucumber Quest author Gigi Digi's work). I just love how it animates, and that alone is what got me to finish the season.